Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 6, 2016
The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."
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Hack Education
AUGUST 19, 2016
One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics. Innovation!
Hack Education
JANUARY 5, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. And yet… Via Education Week : “Pre-K–12 Education Companies’ Status Falls on 2016 Inc. The deal was signed with Sonic Foundry.).
Hack Education
MAY 13, 2016
“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Don’t do this.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” “Make MOOCs great again.” million repayment the Education Department demanded the for-profit institution make in 2005,” reports Inside Higher Ed. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair! — Donald J.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.
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